Living in a dry heat with high temperatures between 105 and 110 during the summer, purslane laughs in your face and thrives here in Phoenix, Arizona. Add some incredible, edible ornamental purslane to your garden this summer! A salsa with purslane recipe is included in the article.

Becky, great article. I grow a variety that the seeds came from Lebanon. My DIL sent them. This type grows more upright and the flowers are very small. You have convinced to to grow some of the ornamental varieties this year. I think they would do very well with my sedum and semps. Thanks for the article.

I want to put them in different places in the flower beds, that is why I did the WS. My tomato plants, violas, hostas and yellow bleeding heart are all popping up out there. It is such an easy way to do seed.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad